• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.215-225
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to contribute research on mathematics education by reviewing earlier studies on teachers' communities. To do so, I searched literature on various kinds of teacher community such as study groups, video clubs, and lesson study. Teacher community has been studied for professional development of teachers and there existed many studies that teacher community help teachers develop their professionals in real. From reviewing literature, I suggest that researchers in Korea need to study about teachers' communities and to find ways using communities in teacher development programs.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.248-258
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-leadership of teachers who conduct free-selection activities in kindergartens. In addition, we analyze the mediating effect of teacher self-efficacy. This study was conducted using data gathered through a survey conducted on 325 kindergarten teachers in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do areas from September 17 to 28, 2018. To analyze the data, the author used SPSS Statistics 22.0 and AMOS 20.0 programs to conduct reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling. The result of the verification of the hypothesis showed that self-leadership of kindergarten teachers who engaged in free-selection activities positively influenced self-efficacy. Self-leadership of teachers who employed free-selection activities had a positive effect on the expertise of teachers as well. Also, self-efficacy of kindergarten teachers positively affected expertise of these teachers. In addition, the self-leadership of kindergarten teachers mediated self-efficacy, so that the indirect effect on teacher expertise was statistically significant. Also, the direct effect of self-leadership on expertise of teachers was significant, which showed that the self-efficacy of the kindergarten teachers indirectly mediated the relationship between self-leadership and expertise of the teachers. This study showed that to enhance expertise of kindergarten teachers, this requires enhancing self-leadership of teachers. Also, in order to enhance the level of self-efficacy of teachers, necessary knowledge and skills that can enhance self-efficacy of these teachers in their working environment should be provided. In addition, someone who can play the role of active facilitator or helper is needed in order to enhance expertise of these teachers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2016년도 제53차 동계학술대회논문집 24권1호
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• pp.177-178
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• 2016

사회 패러다임의 변화는 교육 패러다임의 변화를 요구하며, 교육 패러다임의 변화는 교사의 역할도 함께 변화할 것을 요구한다. 현대 사회는 많은 지식을 습득한 인재를 양성하는 것보다, 지식을 습득하는 방법과 습득한 지식을 활용하여 문제를 효과적으로 해결하는 인재를 양성할 것을 요구하고 있다. 따라서 교사는 현대 사회가 요구하는 학습자를 양성하기 위하여 지식 전달자의 역할에서 문제 해결자를 양성하는 역할로 탈바꿈해야 한다. 이를 위해서는 교사는 학습자가 교과에서 반드시 학습해야 하는 개념과 원리를 깊이 있게 이해하고 이를 활용하여 문제를 해결할 수 있도록 안내하는 역할을 해야 한다. 이러한 점에서 볼 때 프로그래밍은 교사의 수업 전문성 향상을 위한 훌륭한 도구이다. 프로그래밍은 교사가 원하는 교수 학습 자료나 추상적인 내용을 시각적으로 확인하는 자료, 혹은 사람의 사고 능력으로 해결하기 어렵거나 시간이 오래 걸리는 문제들을 해결하는 자료 제작을 지원함으로써 학습자의 깊은 이해를 유도할 수 있다. 따라서 수업 전문성 향상을 위한 프로그래밍 교육 실천함으로써 교사가 사회에서 요구하는 인재를 양성하는 임무를 충실히 수행할 수 있도록 해야 할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.253-267
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• 2014

This study aims to analyse the effectiveness of the mathematics teacher's training program: whether the training program is effective to improve mathematics teachers' professional competency of the developing assessment instrument (including items) or not. The teachers who were attendee of the program did pre-test before the program and post-test after the program. They wrote the opinions on the pre-developed items which had many errors in the beginning and discussed their opinions each others in the middle of program. The differences between pre-test and post-test and between opinions in the beginning and in the middle were analysed. The first result of the study is that the teacher's professional competency which is evaluated as self-perceived points is improved with regard to understanding the standardized test, item difficulty and item discrimination. Secondly, the proportion of the opinion with concrete reasons is increased as the program progressed. Thirdly, the effective elements of the program are the discussion in the group, discussion between groups, and feedback from the instructor. But the ineffective element of the program is the insufficient time for practicing.

• Journal of Christian Education in Korea
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• 제63권
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• pp.183-219
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to find out what their professionalism is and how their expertise grows among Christian alternative school teachers. Professionalism refers to the broad expertise such as specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for a particular profession. The teacher expertise is also closely related to the life cycle of a teacher. The present study collected and analyzed the data using a mixed research method that combined a survey and interview. The survey, which involved 276 Christian alternative school teachers, asked about the current teacher's interest, the importance and retention of each element of professionalism, and, in addition, the level of external efforts and help in developing professionalism. The in-depth interview was conducted on 7 Christian alternative school teachers and identified the meaning of teacher professionalism, teacher quality and competencies, and environment for the professional growth. The results reveal that the professionalism recognized by Christian alternative school teachers is rather complex. It includes communication and relationship, calling and identity in addition to the curriculum and instruction expertise that reconstructs the curriculum from a Christian perspective. It is further found that teachers' decision to respond to the calling, subsequent continuous self-development, the teacher community that embodies such calling and efforts, and the school environment where autonomy and responsibility coexist, are equally important for their professional growth. Thus, in order to promote the professionalism of Christian alternative school teachers more effectively in the future, it would be necessary to provide programs that take the teacher's whole life cycle into account and are also directed to teachers themselves rather than to institutions. Considering the emphasis on the expertise in communication and relations, pre-service teacher education should focus not only on developing subject matter expertise, but also fostering communication and relational skills with students and other school community members.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보교육학회 2010년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.151-160
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• 2010

Learning progression is an advantageous way to describe the development of learner understanding about a topic. In the present study, learning progression is introduced to characterize novice teachers' professional knowledge and competence and to help designing teacher professional development programs in the developmental approach. The development and validation phases of learning progression are proposed in the paper. In addition a case study is presented to demonstrate the process of developing a learning progression for teaching-through-inquiry using ICT. The learning progression in novice teacher professional development can be used to assess the level of teacher understanding in specific topic and to effectively support the development of teachers' professional knowledge and competence via professional development programs in the longitudinal view.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.519-533
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• 2018

This study aims to classify the types of instructional expertise development activities of teachers who teach subjects related to software education in primary schools. To this end, the study analyzes their participation in expertise development activities over the recent three years, outcomes from these activities, and forms and characteristics of expertise development activities. In the questionnaire survey conducted for this study, 276 primary school teachers participated. According to the survey, the same largest proportion of them participated in collective job training (96%) and distant job training (96%), followed by consulting, instruction supervision, mentoring, and peer observation (82%), lectures, workshops, and seminars held by related government ministries and the provincial and municipal offices of education (69%), and teachers' study communities (66%). Among informal activities, reading accounted for the highest portion of the activities (88%), followed by the use of information on Websites including YouTude and GitHub (80%), and teachers' expertise development networks (76%). The reasons for their participation in the activities were mostly to improve their instructional expertise (80%). Their participation in the activities had an impact on usefulness to enhance instructional expertise, improvement of job competencies, application to current jobs, sense of instructional efficacy, and positive effect. These results of the study are expected to provide a foundation for preparing continued expertise development plans that can promote the educational value of primary school teachers' instructional expertise development activities for teaching subjects related to software education.

• Journal of Science Education
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.369-382
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to survey the need of in-service education for the professional development of middle school science teachers' teaching practice. The questionnaire was modified by Young Choi's framework(2010) to survey the level of the progression in the professional development and learning, the degree of in-service education necessity, and the degree of priority of need. The questionnaire was administered to 203 middle school science teachers in Daegu. The mean level of the progression in the professional development and learning were 2.45 and 3.15. The degrees of in-service education necessity to improve level of the progression in the professional development and learning was 3.45, and 3.16. The element and aspect highest degree of priority of need were 'element 1. planning coherent sequences of lessons' and 'aspect 1-4. planning difference among individuals', 'aspect 1-2. planning learning activity'. The degree of in-service education necessity and the degree of priority of need was a significant difference according to almost all of the teachers' characteristics.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구과학회 2005년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.331-338
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• 2005

본 연구는 과학영재교육의 질적 수준을 제고하는 데 핵심이 되는 영재교육 담당교사를 위한 연수의 효율성을 높이기 위하여 새로운 형태의 교사의 인식수준 파악과과 신념 변화 과정을 조사하고바람직한 교사연수 모형을 개발하는 기초 자료를 수집하는데 그 목적이 있다. 따라서 서울시교육청에서 처음 시도하는 교사연수 형태인 [파견연수] 전후에 있어서 과학교사들의 신념변화 과정을 설문지와 관찰, 인터뷰를 통하여 확인하고 논의점을 찾고자 하였다. 따라서 본 연구 결과가 우리나라 과학영재교육의 질적 수준을 향상시키고 영재교육 담당교사의 전문성을 효율적으로 신장시키는 연수 프로그램의 기본 틀로 활용될 것을 기대한다. 후속 연구로는 영재교육 담당교사의 전문성을 측정하는 도구 개발과 전문성 실태 분석 및 연구 결과를 토대로 한 연수 프로그램 효과 분석 및 효율적인 과학영재교육분야의 교사연수 모형개발이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.193-212
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• 2013

This paper aims to identify factors to elevate the effectiveness of a high school mathematics teacher's training program focused on the construction of test items, and to make a blueprint for the training program development of high school mathematics teachers. This study created and executed a teacher's training program, and then twice applied focus group interviews with the teachers who participated in the program. As a result, this study identifies four factors that elevate the effectiveness of a high school mathematics teacher's training program focused on the construction of test items: the structure of the training program that allows teachers to concentrate on constructing test items, the recognition and revision of their habits related to the construction of test items, the formation of a consensus among the participants, and self-reflection on the teachers' specialties in the construction of the test items.